Finding a Comfortable Perch
To Watch South Beach's Scene

By

Laura Landro Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated Feb. 23, 2001 11:59 p.m. ET

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In the Warner Bros. movie "Beetlejuice," a recently deceased couple played by Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis wake up in the afterlife and find themselves right back in their own comfortable, familiar home. As long as they stay in that house, things seem safe and normal, but if they venture outside they are set upon by snakelike monsters, encounter all kinds of freaks, and are...